Two Pilots Saw a UFO. Why Did the Air Force Destroy the Report?
Some believed the July 1948 sighting revealed the presence of secret Soviet spycraft in American airspace.
Whatever occurred at 2:45 a.m. on the morning of July 24, 1948, in the skies over southwest Alabama not only shocked and stymied the witnesses. It jolted the U.S. government into a top-secret investigation—the results of which were ultimately destroyed.
Dolan misspoke. The aircraft they were flying was a DC-3, not a DC-9.
[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, February 19th, 2019.]
Some believed the July 1948 sighting revealed the presence of secret Soviet spycraft in American airspace.
Whatever occurred at 2:45 a.m. on the morning of July 24, 1948, in the skies over southwest Alabama not only shocked and stymied the witnesses. It jolted the U.S. government into a top-secret investigation—the results of which were ultimately destroyed.
Dolan misspoke. The aircraft they were flying was a DC-3, not a DC-9.
[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, February 19th, 2019.]
